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From: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@suse.com>
To: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>,
	LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] confused with lvm2 filter rules
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 06:42:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0a7f1d8-9f0c-bc77-f30f-0b6b6a79ef53@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <662c133e-cebe-1882-a086-edb2219af7f0@redhat.com>

Hello Zdenek,

Thank you very much for your explanation.

Regards,
zhm


On 6/5/19 6:20 PM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> Dne 03. 06. 19 v 15:03 Heming Zhao napsal(a):
>> Hello,
>>
>> I met below filter action when executed 'vgextend'.
>> why the filter take no effect on executing pvcreate or vgcreate?
> 
>> # rpm -qa | grep lvm2
>> lvm2-clvm-2.02.180-8.16.x86_64
>> lvm2-cmirrord-2.02.180-8.16.x86_64
>> lvm2-2.02.180-8.16.x86_64
>>
>> the filter rules:� (you can see all the disk in /dev/disk/by-id/ are
>> rejected)
>> # grep filter /etc/lvm/lvm.conf | grep -v "#"
>> ����� filter = [ "r|/dev/.*/by-path/.*|", "r|/dev/.*/by-id/.*|",
>> "r|/dev/fd.*|", "r|/dev/cdrom|", "a/.*/" ]
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Filter with 'a|.*|' at the end will almost always never work.
> As devices do have several names so if you reject it by one name,
> you will likely accept it with another name.
> 
> 
> So I'd highly recommend only these 2 variants that are 'easy to follow'.
> 
> 
> 1. White-list devices you want to see and add r|.*|� as the last rule.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ most recommended.
> 
> 2. Pure list of reject rules (do not add any 'a' rule).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Zdenek
> 
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-06  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-03 13:03 [linux-lvm] confused with lvm2 filter rules Heming Zhao
2019-06-05  2:41 ` Heming Zhao
2019-06-05 10:20 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-06-06  6:42   ` Heming Zhao [this message]
2019-06-06  8:16   ` Heming Zhao
2019-06-06  8:43     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-06-06 13:30       ` Heming Zhao
2019-06-06 13:51         ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-06-10  2:43           ` Heming Zhao
     [not found]             ` <60982841-fabc-71d9-b8b1-6d98b87ba738@suse.com>
2019-06-25  7:56               ` Martin Wilck
2019-06-25  8:56                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2019-06-25  9:13                   ` Heming Zhao
2019-06-26  6:49                     ` Heming Zhao

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